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April 16th, 2020 06:00

M17x R3, low fps

I have a nine year old Alienware M17x R3 with the Nvidia GeForce 580m and all the games have low fps. Example GTA 5 was supposed to run on 60fps and I get 1 fps, even on lowest I don't get 60 fps. The temperatures are very cool and good but the games lag a lot, even using Nvidia GPU.

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April 16th, 2020 14:00

Just check the Device Manager and see if you have a yellow exclamation mark and a Code 43. If you do then you have a fault with the GPU.

The only other thing I can think of is that it's reverting to the Intel 3000 graphics. 

I'd still open her up and check the heatsinks, fans and thermal paste. 

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April 20th, 2020 16:00

changed the thermal paste and the thermal pads and cleaned the laptop from inside and games are running on nvidia 

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April 24th, 2020 07:00

Still no reply, im going crazy, i guess I will never buy a dell product no more, even my intel pentium with 1.9 ghz and no gpu of any kind runs it better

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January 17th, 2021 05:00

As for 2021 I think that my GPU is failing so I'm probably ordering one from ebay 

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January 17th, 2021 15:00

If you're getting 1fps and you know that it's running from the Nvidia GPU then it does sound like the card has an issue. 9 years is very decent from a mobile GPU if you have been using it consistently though. 

Have you tried re-installing the last supported driver for the 580M directly from nvidia? 

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